A4 (Mathematics in the Modern World)

MATHEMATICS IN OUR WORLD

Activity No. 1
I. Knowledge/ Remembering

A. Identification:
1. Who is the mathematician who invented Fibonacci Sequence?
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2. When is Fibonacci Day?
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3. What is the symbol that stands for the Golden Ratio/ Golden Mean?
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4. What is the value of the Golden Mean?
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5. What is the formula for Exponential Decay/Growth or also known as formula
for World Population?
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B. Enumeration:
1 – 5. Except for the given examples, enumerate 5 examples of pattern that you
can see around you.
6 – 25. On the table below, write the values for Fibonacci Sequence.

n Fn
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
II. Comprehension/ Understanding
A. Determine what comes next in the given patterns.
1. A, C, E, G, I, ___
2. 15, 10, 14, 10, 13, 10, ___
3. 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, ___
4. 27, 30, 33, 36, 39, ___
5. 41, 39, 37, 35, 33, ___
6. CSD, ETF, GUH, _____
7. 22, 21, 25, 24, 28, 27, ___
8. O, T, T, F, F, S, E, ___
9. 1, 8, 27, 64, 125, ___
10. 1, 3, 9, 27, 81, ___

B. Vlad has a summer job packing sweets Each pack should weigh 200 grams.
Vlad had to make 15 packs of sweets. He checked the weights in grams correct to
the nearest gram. Following are his measurement:
212 206 203 206 199
196 197 197 209 206
198 191 196 206 207

What is the most frequent data?________________

III. Application/ Applying
A. Substitution

Substitute the given values in the formula 𝐴=𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑡 to find the missing quantity.
1. P = 680, 000 r=12%, t = 8 years
2. A = 1,240,000 r = 8% t = 30 years
3. A = 786,000 P = 247, 000 t = 17 years
4. A = 731, 093 P = 525, 600 r = 3%
B. Exponential Growth/ Decay
1. Exponential Growth A house is purchased for P1,000,000 in 2002. The value
of the house is given by the exponential growth model 𝐴=1,000,000𝑒0.645𝑡. Find t
when the house would be worth P5,000,000.
2. Exponential Decay The amount of radioactive material present at time t is
given by 𝐴=𝐴0𝑒𝑘𝑡, where A0 is the initial amount, k<0 is the rate of decay.
Radioactive substances are more commonly described in terms of their half-life or
the time required for half of the substance to decompose. Determine the half-life of
substance X f after 600 years, a sample has decayed to 85% of its original mass.
C. Fibonacci Sequence
Let Fib(n) bet the nth term of the Fibonacci Sequence, with Fib(1) = 1, Fib(2) = 2,
Fib(3) = 2, and so on. (You can refer on the table that you have made in Knowledge
part)
1. Find Fib(8)
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2. Find Fib(19)
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3. If Fib(22) = 17,711 and Fib(24) = 46, 368, what is Fib(23)?
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4. a.) Fib(1) + Fib(2) =
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b.) Fib(1) + Fib(2) + Fib(3) =
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c.) Fib(1) + Fib(2) + Fib(3) =
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5. Starting with the first Fibonacci number, Fib(1) = 1 and the second Fibonacci
number, Fib(2) = 2, what is the 15th Fibonacci number, Fib(15)?
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6. What is Fib(20)?
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7. Given Fib(30) = 832,040 and Fib(28) = 317,811, what is Fib(29)?

IV. Analysis/ Analyzing

Place your solution on the space provided.
1. Suppose the population of a certain bacteria in a laboratory sample is 100. If it
doubles in population every 6 hours, what is the growth rate? How many bacteria
will there be in two days?
2. The ratio 𝐹𝑖𝑏(𝑛+1)𝐹𝑖𝑏(𝑛) as n gets larger is said to approach the Golden Ratio, which
is approximately equal to 1.618. What happens to the inverse of this ratio,
𝐹𝑖𝑏(𝑛)𝐹𝑖𝑏(𝑛+1)? What number does this quantity approach? How does this compare to
the original ratio?
V. Synthesis/ Creating
A. Essay
1. Write an essay discussing the following ideas: what new ideas in mathematics
have you learned or changed your previous believes about mathematics? What is
the most useful in mathematics for humankind?
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B.
1. If you have a wooden board that is 0.75 meters wide, how long should you cut it
such that the Golden Ratio is observed? Use 1.618 as the value of the Golden
Ratio.

2. A certain study found that the relationship between the student’s exam scores
(y) and the numbers of hors they spent studying (x) is given by the equation y =
10x +45. Using this information, what will be the estimated score of a student who
spent 4 hours studying?

VI. Evaluation/ Evaluating

1. Take a picture of a plant, tree, a building or an object in your surroundings and
discuss how mathematics is embedded in your chosen object.

2. Consider Fib(3). What do you notice about every third Fibonacci number, i.e.
Fib(6), Fib(9), Fib(12), …? Similarly, look at Fib(4) = 3, then check out every fourth
Fibonacci number, i.e. Fib(8), Fib(12), Fib(16), … What seems to be the pattern
behind these sequences generated from the Fibonacci numbers?